My Hood
An illustrated map of Montréal and the spots I keep going back to.
PVM & 1000 DE LA GAUCHETIÈRE
Downtown
Place Ville Marie’s beacon sweeps the sky every night — from anywhere on the island it tells you where downtown is.
ROADSIDE ICON
Gibeau Orange Julep
A three-storey orange sphere selling frothy juice since 1932. Nobody knows exactly what’s in it. Nobody asks.
CONCRETE DREAM
Habitat 67
A student’s thesis that became the strangest address in Canada. The boxes line up perfectly for exactly three seconds from the ferry.
SATURDAY RITUAL
Marché Jean-Talon
I come for tomatoes and leave with a plant, two cheeses, and a conversation in three languages.
THE CLIMB
Mont-Royal Lookout
Every friend who visits gets marched up here first. The city only makes sense once you’ve seen it breathe from above.
WANDER
Old Port
Cobblestones, river wind, and the clock tower I’ve never once seen tell the right time.
24/7 SINCE 1957
St-Viateur Bagel
3 a.m., snowstorm, and the wood oven is still going. A dozen sesame, warm out of the bag. Sorry, New York.
THE BIG O
Stade Olympique
The leaning tower we mock relentlessly and would riot to protect. From the east end it rises like a ship’s bow.